TED - Peter Norvig Video & Number of Students

TED - Peter Norvig

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This video shows that Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are continuing to grow in popularity and the different platforms that courses are hosted on are continually having to develop new ways to present course materials. Here is a link to the course on Udacity's platform that was mentioned in the video.

Number of Students

One thing that I find amazing about MOOCs are the number of students that are enrolling in these courses. I retweeted on the MOOC Research social media pages a tweet (see below) from @coursera about the number of students using their platform. This is an awesome achievement for Coursera.

Coursera grows to 3 million users today! User heat map below and see live counter: bit.ly/WCfI3x! twitter.com/coursera/statu…
— Coursera (@coursera) March 20, 2013

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Introduction to MOOCs

I found this video on YouTube and I feel that this video gives a good understanding of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). I feel that starting with the basics of MOOCs is important for this research project. This video is helpful in regard to the big ideas of MOOCs and how a MOOC works. This also does a good job at describing a MOOC and how they can become successful, which is from a lot of communication about the course, like as the video said use of "Online Networks".

Also, I wanted to post another video resource about MOOCs. This video talks more about the different MOOCs that are currently available. I have links to the MOOCs they discussed under my Links page. I personally have taken two courses on Coursera and am currently taking one course on edX. I find that one major benefit is how they provided a structure with dates to complete assignments. Another, benefit is that they have easy to understand websites.

I am going to continue looking for more resources and will post them as I find them. To get updates on my research process, connect with me on social media.

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Welcome to MOOC Research

I am currently starting to work on my research in the area of MOOCs. What I want to do is create place where I am able to demonstrate my research process. I want to create a resource for others learning about MOOCs. I am going to provide as much information as possible. Thank you for visiting and I hope to provide more information about MOOCs soon.

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